Mountain man TV show

[CX5Ranch]

So I have recently been addicted to this show via amazon prime TV. We dont watch TV. Ever. Until we bought this new gadget called a smart tv. Pretty neat I must say. I never heard of a guy called randy newberg until now lol.

Any way. I really like this Marty fella on the show. Dude is legit.

My question is this, because I really dont know the answer. Can he really stay alive sleeping on the ground 100 miles from the arctic circle in a sleeping bag? The guy wakes up in the morning, jumps out the bag, and puts his boots on in the snow and heads for the trap line. Is that real?

If it is he's one tough mother trucker

I get cold when its 25 above here in Missouri lol

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[VernAK]

Yes!

 

[robby denning]

I’ve wondered the same thing. Unheated tent at 20 below and his sleeping bag didn’t look like much to write home about. Then he skins a bobcat at 25 below, no gloves.

 

[Trial153]

Well there was this one time I was in Yukon....

 

[RosinBag]

I watched that show for many years...I think Marty is as tough as the come, but many times they do things to show them in tough situations and then the cameras get turned off. The film crew is there so I am sure they are taken care of.

The other trapper guy from Montana I think is always in jeans and they make it seems like he walks all day and night chasing his hounds in the snow but yet his jeans never look wet and he never sweats.

Still tough mountain guys, but it’s for entertainment.

 

[casey.hunts]

Welp... I would say it’s definitely possible it’s staged, given producer reputations of so many “Alaska shows” I’ve seen. But that said, it’s definitely possible, though it’s also a great way to breath your last

I’ve slept out many places across the state without shelter, but I’d say sleeping under the stars on a frozen river sleeping bag only in -35* F up the Little Gerstle River (map it) is probably the closest to what you’re referencing in the show.

Marty is a cool cat though!


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[CorbLand]

I know that some of that show is staged. There is an episode with a guy from Swan Valley Idaho. His snowmobile breaks down as he is running his trap line. They go on to say and show him put a teepee up and how cold it’s going to be and how he is always prepared. They zoom out and there’s his teepee with a thin stream of smoke and this really pretty waterfall behind it.

That waterfall is piped under one of the roads into Tex Creek and can be seen from the highway from IF to Swan Valley.


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[*zap*]

Gave up tv 10 years ago.

 

[wind gypsy]

I’m sure many of the characters are tough outdoorsman in their own right but it is a tv show with manufactured situations.

I’m pretty sure Tom Oar in the Yaak lives right off the highway and can head to town whenever he needs to.

 

[Randle]

I’m sure many of the characters are tough outdoorsman in their own right but it is a tv show with manufactured situations.

I’m pretty sure Tom Oar in the Yaak lives right off the highway and can head to town whenever he needs to.

Yep I have a friend that lives up there . Not all is as it seems

 

[bowtech840]

I watched an episode years ago where Marty’s snow machine broke down like 12 miles from his cabin in sub zero temps. He figured out it needed a new motor and he had a spare one at the cabin. They claimed he walked back to the cabin and then carried the new motor back to the broken down rig and swapped the engine out lol. The film crew was riding beside him on a snowmobile filming him carrying the motor. You have to leave your intuition at the door when you watch shows like that. Purely for entertainment only.


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[CorbLand]

The really annoying voiced dude with the weird name is in and out of court all the time for not paying taxes.


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[Rob Patuto]

I haven't seen the show in several years... I viewed it, like several others, as comedy.

"Tom goes duck hunting for winter meat on the Kootenai river" give me a freak'n break.

 

[Rokwiia]

I think Marty is tough as nails and this season's addition, legendary Kodiak guide Mike Horstman, is also the real-deal, mountain man.

 

[FLAK]

I'm always amazed at the "subsistence" life, hunting and trapping
to survive but has a Bush plane and a sheep tag.

 

[robby denning]

I'm always amazed at the "subsistence" life, hunting and trapping
to survive but has a Bush plane and a sheep tag.

hahahaa, me too. I'm like "I don't have a bush plane and a sheep tag"


I can say on a positive note about this show having watched maybe 5-6 episodes, that I haven't seen hunting portrayed in a negative light on purpose. Maybe it's coming, not sure.

And it's pretty raw sometimes-- I was surprised they showed Marty shooting that Lynx in the trap, but maybe that was an underhanded shot at hunting.

I just like people to see how it is to really live of the land. They're closer to living that way than many people realize-- a few wars, a real economic crash, government overthrow and suddenly us outdoorsmens/hunters/trappers, we're all pretty cool. At least that's how my non-hunting in laws view me. When Y2K was all the scare, suddenly they were real interested on if I could really have a deer back to the house by dark. hahahaha.

 

[Logan T]

I know the guy who actually films Marty, or at least did for the first however many seasons. He said Marty is really a tough as nails and bad ass guy.

Now all the other guys..... different story.


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[Glendon Mullins]

The really annoying voiced dude with the weird name is in and out of court all the time for not paying taxes.


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That would be Eustace Conway, i saw on facebook alot of people that lives near him calls him "useless conway" lol, I have no clue the real truth

 

[Nick Muche]

Marty is the real deal. Great guy too.

Many winter trips well north of the Arctic Circle and we sleep in the bed of my Tacoma with just a sleeping bag...albeit the bag is a -65 . Going again soon with free wolf “permits” (no permit required).

Move to AK, learn to fly and get free sheep permits. Or don’t learn to fly and still get free sheep permits just like many of us do...

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Didn’t even realize Horstman was on the new season. I love that guy. Great old timer. First time I met him was a long night in an airplane hangar shooting the shit and drinking beers. What a guy!

 

[mfllood3800]

Marty Moriarty … if I remember right, he was my favorite. I haven't watched TV in years and miss this show. I actually forgot about this series. My dad was a trapper and raised us the same and sent us to "Trapper safety" (same kind of thing as hunter safety) so we could trap at younger age. He Lived in the northern Wisc woods in an old cabin. No utilities, outhouse the whole works. My love for the outdoors came from his love for them. It's not something you can put in someone, it is either in there or it isn't.

If I was Marty, I wouldn't be running a line with that old Sled, I would have a newer one with a better track and skiis for sure. Watching him on that thing just made me wonder if he would be hiking out one day. I snowmobile in the Utah mountains a lot, and when its great snow, you need a sled designed for that, poor Marty didn't even come close. Heck, make the producers buy one for him. lol

I like that old Tom guy too. He reminded me of my dad a lot. My dad made knives from scratch and all sorts of stuff like that.
Now I may have to watch TV again.
lol

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Also looks like Marty is now flying "Smoke Jumper" planes for the BLM?
Pretty cool.